NIP receives vaccines

The National Immunization Program (NIP) has already received 20,000 doses of the Pentavalent vaccine. The DKTH vaccine was scheduled to be delivered on October 3 but there was a delay due to production problems at the supplier in South Korea. The current batch is enough for six months. The NIP currently has all the necessary vaccines in stock. The NIP also rejected the reports that claimed that the Yellow Fever vaccine is in short supply. It pointed out that there is a temporary shortage of Yellow Fever vaccination books for travelers. People who want to travel abroad and who are required to receive the Yellow Fever vaccine are being urged to get vaccinated 10 days prior to their departure. Brazil’s health authorities launched a yellow fever vaccination campaign on the north side of Brazil’s largest city over the weekend after a dead monkey was found infected with the disease, state and city officials said on Monday. Two parks were closed following confirmation that one of five monkeys found dead on Friday had yellow fever, raising fears of an outbreak of the illness in metro Sao Paulo, home to 23 million people. Brazil is undergoing its worst yellow fever outbreak in decades. The virus has killed at least 261 people since December, nearly all in the southeast of the country. Millions of Brazilians have been vaccinated as authorities scramble to prevent the outbreak from turning into an epidemic. Scientists do not know why yellow fever is rebounding in a country that had all but eradicated the illness, especially in big cities. Yellow fever, one of the deadliest tropical diseases, causes muscle aches and fever and can lead to complications like jaundice and kidney failure.